What no one’s talking about: the unanswered problems with L2 scaling solutions
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Two days ago, I cheekily stated that “Layer 2s will save Ethereum”.
Why DAO is the next three-letter crypto acronym to know
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This is not financial advice; always do you own due diligence on coins :)
Crypto moves at a lightening fast pace, and with it comes a slew of acronyms and shorthand lingo that even confuse a longtime vet — let alone a crypto newcomer.
DeFi, CEX, DEX, AMM, TradFi, CeFi, CeDeFi, NFTs, ERC20, PoW, PoS. And that’s not getting into abstract technical terms like nonce, gas limit, SHA-256…
NFTs (non-fungible tokens), the…
Why I’m slowly accumulating more ETH after the mid-May “crash”
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Do not invest more than you can afford to lose. This is not financial advice; always do you own research :)
Mid-May hurt.
The total crypto market cap fell from $2.5T to $1.5T in the span of a week. BTC fell by 40%, ETH by 60%, and some altcoins by 80%+.
Protocols on Binance Smart Chain kept getting exploited by flash loans and sometimes outright rugged.
An exhaustive framework for why an MBA is not a good fit for my life goals
I thought I had life figured out.
It was fall of 2016. I had just finished my summer internship at McKinsey and received a full-time offer to return the following year.
I was entering senior year of university with only 4 credits left in my dual major — with absolutely no obligations in terms of school work, student groups, and definitely no anxiety around looking for a job after graduation.
I checked off the “working at McKinsey” box in my proverbial 5-year plan (note: no actual checklist was made, this was all mental).
The next step was to study for the GMAT, get into a deferred program…
Join #neversell gang with internet bonds and collateralized loans
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Do not invest more than you can afford to lose. This is not financial advice; always do you own research :)
I’m never selling my ETH.
I feel like people give me a weird look whenever I say that.
“What do you mean never sell?”
The same definition as everyone else:
Why DEXes are needed given the recent events with $GME
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Quick note: I meant to write this blog post only days after the Robinhood-GameStop fiasco happened in late January this year. I tried several times to write a compelling draft about this moment in history, but I failed to properly articulate what I wanted to say.
There’s so much to dissect in this incident: the issues with the…
Web3 will need a brand new form of fully-owned website
Author’s Note: This is Part 5 of my NFT series. Click here to read Part 1, where I document the rise of NFTs. And here for Part 2, where I talk about it as a foundation of the new world. And here for Part 3, where I talk about owning our social media content + social media as our digital identity. And here for Part 4, where I talk about decentralized identity and name ownership.
A few days ago, I asserted that the Web3 revolution and the arrival of the Metaverse could not happen without decentralized identities — the ability…
The Web3 Metaverse is only possible with name ownership
Author’s Note: This is Part 4 of my NFT series. Click here to read Part 1, where I document the rise of NFTs. And here for Part 2, where I talk about it as a foundation of the new world. And here for Part 3, where I talk about owning our social media content + social media as our digital identity.
Who are you?
I dare you to answer that without providing your name.
What even is a name?
It’s collection of sounds and syllables. Jim-my Chang.
What about my name in another language? What if I were Jaime in…
There is no one coin to rule them all
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Do not invest more than you can afford to lose. This is not financial advice; always do you own research :)
There are more coins than ever.
Every day, a new shitcoin is being minted on Binance Smart Chain. More and more projects are creating ERC-20 tokens on Ethereum — as a form of governance or utility for their protocol.
The world of only Bitcoin and Ethereum ruling the entire industry is now a myth.
An Aesop’s Fable that accurately describes my life
I recently recalled a fable I learned in elementary school called The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse.
Mainly because it was referenced several times in Chainsaw Man, a really awesome manga that I’ve gotten into in the recent months.
In the manga, the cast of main characters (Denji, Reze, Angel, and Makima) grasps with whether they prefer to be the country mouse vs. the town mouse.
I’d rather not spoil the manga, so here’s the synopsis from Wikipedia for folks unfamiliar with the tale:
In the original tale, a proud town mouse visits his cousin in the country. The…
